Effect of Recycled Bagasse on Cracking Behavior of Clay Materials by Wenlong Ma, Wenbo Liu, Yuanhang Wang, Binbin Yang

“…Under arid climatic conditions, the clay material shrinks and loses water. Many crisscross drying shrinkage cracks formed on the surface and inside the soil will affect the stability of the soil. …”
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Saturation Height Modelling for Tight Sandstone Reservoirs with Gas Diffusion Dynamics Taken into Account by Zhou Lyu, Zhilun Yang, Yuhong Hao, Shunzhi Yang, Liqiong Wang, Sen Chang, Xiaomin Xue, Jing Li

“…Taking the study of the Sulige tight sandstone gas reservoir in China as an example, the saturation height model compares the controlling factors and uncertainties affecting the saturation distribution, characterizes the complex gas-water distribution, and determines the lower gas charging limits. …”
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What Veterinarians Need to Know About the Newly-Emerging Field of Insects-as-Food-and-Feed by Kimberly L. Boykin, Mark A. Mitchell

“…Its growth is largely because insects require substantially less resources (water, food, and energy) to produce than traditional sources of animal protein, making it a sustainable alternative food option. …”
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A Validation of the Ultrasound Wave Velocity Method to Predict Porosity of Dry and Saturated Cement Paste by Zhenting Zou, Jay N. Meegoda

“…Cement paste is a multiphase composite consisting of solid cement and microscopic voids filled either with air or water. The void content in cement paste is directly related to strength and durability. …”
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Indicadores de Bem-estar Humano para Povos Tradicionais: o caso de uma comunidade ribeirinha na fronteira da Amazônia brasileira by Luiz Felipe Barbosa Lacerda, Luis Eduardo Acosta

“…The experience shared the methodological advances on the construction of precise indicators for traditional societies and showed how traditional communities build up their wellbeing in relation to the knowledge they have of water, soil and forest cycles, making them autonomous in the productive and cultural processes of their territories.…”
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Application of HF Radar in Hazard Management by Mal Heron, Roberto Gomez, Bernd Weber, Anna Dzvonkovskaya, Thomas Helzel, Nicolas Thomas, Lucy Wyatt

“…The time sequence of surface current maps enables Lagrangian tracking of small parcels of surface water, which enables hazard mitigation in managing suspended sediments in dredging, in emergency situations where flotsam and other drifting items need to be found, and in pollution control. …”
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Effective Extraction of Heavy Metals from their Effluents Using Some Potential Ionic Liquids as Green Chemicals by A. Rajendran, D. Ragupathy, M. Priyadarshini, A. Magesh, P. Jaishankar, N. S. Madhavan, K. Sajitha, S. Balaji

“…The removal of these heavy metals from the industrial effluents / contaminated water bodies using these ionic liquids has been proved to be more successful than conventional methods such as precipitation, cementation, reverse osmosis, ion exchange and adsorption.…”
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Conversation sur le terrain by Blandine Brière, Alice Broilliard, Juliette Vignes, Julien Viniane

“…This bocage is the key element of the landscape, it reconciles the rural and urban spaces of tomorrow, generates biodiversity and protects the water resources of the valleys. However, it is also in economic difficulty since it is dependent on fragile farming practices. …”
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Nouvelles dédicaces d’Alésia à Apollon Moritasgus by Olivier de Cazanove, Monique Dondin-Payre

“…The first one (found in 2011, in a manhole of a water channel, right north of the temple) bears the dedication by a Roman citizen whose sole cognomen, Iullinus, is preserved, who fulfills a vow granted by his sister Fuscina. …”
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The effect of the degree of isolation of alder tussocks on the activity and diversity of epigeic invertebrates by Izabella Olejniczak, Paweł Boniecki, Janusz Uchmański

“…Samples were taken every 7 or 14 days twice in the season: when tussocks were or were not isolated by water. The distance from the alder wood did not influence on activity and diversity of epigeic invertebrates on tussocks. …”
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Toxicity of mercury (Hg) on survival and growth rate, hemato- and histopathological parameters ofOreochromis niloticus by Kukuh Nirmala, Yuni Puji Hastuti, Vika Yuniar

“…The aim of this study was to determine the influence of mercury in water on survival rate, growth rates, hematological, and histological parameters of Oreochromis niloticus. …”
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Prediction of Ship Traffic Flow and Congestion Based on Extreme Learning Machine with Whale Optimization Algorithm and Fuzzy c-Means Clustering by Yongjun Chen, Ming Huang, Kaixuan Song, Tengfei Wang

“…Accurately predicting short-term congestions in ship traffic flow is important for water traffic safety and intelligent shipping. We propose a method for predicting the traffic flow of ships by applying the whale optimization algorithm to an extreme learning machine. …”
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Sensitivity Studies for the Exercise I-1 of the OECD/UAM Benchmark by E. Canuti, A. Petruzzi, F. D'Auria, T. Kozlowski

“…OECD/NEA has initiated an international Uncertainty Analysis in Modeling (UAM) benchmark focused on uncertainties in modeling of Light Water Reactor (LWR). The first step of uncertainty propagation is to perform sensitivity to the input data affected by the numerical errors and physical models. …”
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Participation of Swazi women in the traditional public sphere, Sibaya, in the Kingdom of Swaziland by Maxwell Vusumuzi Mthembu

“…Thorny issues raised by women pertained to education (primary, secondary and tertiary), the welfare of widows, chieftaincy disputes, access to land, provision of water and electricity and gender-based violence, among others. …”
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Dynamic Investigation in Green Supply Chain considering Channel Service by Qiuxiang Li, Mengmeng Li, Yimin Huang

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Effect of pH and Hypo-Osmotic Stress on NaCl Electrolyte Permeation across Red Blood Cell Membrane by B.O. Atolaiye, D.U. Edward-Ekpu, T.O. Bamidele

“…Iso-osmotic solutions (25 mL) were diluted with 25 mL of distilled water to give half the initial concentrations (50 % hypotonic salt solutions). …”
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Immobilization of Cd, Zn, and Pb from Soil Treated by Limestone with Variation of pH Using a Column Test by Sung-Wook Yun, Chan Yu

“…Cd and Zn, in particular, exhibited abrupt or continuous leaching when exposed to acid solutions, indicating the potential for contamination of water systems as metal-laden soils are exposed to the slightly acidic rainfall typical of South Korea. …”
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Ultrasound-Assisted Emulsification Microextraction Based on Solidification Floating Organic Drop Trace Amounts of Manganese Prior to Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectrometry... by Alireza Mohadesi, Masoumeh Falahnejad

“…The proposed method was successfully applied for separation and determination of manganese in sea, rain, tap, and river water samples.…”
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Application of New Technology of Intelligent Robot Plant Protection in Ecological Agriculture by Zhe An, Chunhang Wang, Bincy Raj, Sathyapriya Eswaran, R. Raffik, Sandip Debnath, Saima Ahmed Rahin

“…Crop diseases, pest infestations, water shortages, weed infestations, and other issues affect the agriculture sector. …”
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Deployment of Agriculture 4.0 with the Integration of IoT by Sheila Maria Muniz

“…Urbanization, which indirectly affected the lives of people in the agricultural sector by increasing level of environmental pollution, climate change, degradation of soil and water quality, increasing population, decreasing income from the farming industry, etc. …”
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